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TIL seven members of the 82nd Airborne Division were charged with appearing on military-themed gay porn

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1mnV TIL In Missouri in the early 1860s, a ‘snowflake’ was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery.
kJAQm TIL the Nationals (MLB baseball team) began the 2019 season with a record of 19–31, with their chances of winning the World Series at 1.5%. The Nationals went a perfect 5-0 in elimination games during the playoffs, all of which were come-from-behind victories, the first team in MLB history to do so.
X0g5R TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.
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KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.